Technology has been the foundation of the ever-improving work of the oil and gas industry, and technology will play a critical role in how the industry evolves to meet the coming market demands in energy, carbon footprint, financial expectations, and workplace environments.

This panel highlights senior technology executives in oil and gas companies as they share insights in to where they are focused on developing technologies in our industry, as they are assessing new opportunities.

The discussion will include the balancing act of risks with potential rewards, that sits on their shoulders, and this panel will provide a unique insight into what they believe lies ahead, as well as what technology areas are most worthy for the petroleum engineering community to engage in.

The panel will discuss their future view highlighting critical gaps to fill in technology, and where we need to grow as an industry in our practices, disciplines and collaborative development to meet those needs. The discussion will be themed with the very relevant focus of engaging the needs of future employees as they come with new expectations in digitization and automation, affecting our challenge of attracting people back in to our industry with important and impactful work of powering and advancing the health and wellbeing of our world.